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The Basics Muggleborns run the world. Aided by their ability to blend in among actual Muggles, they have used magic to climb to some of the upper echelons of Muggle society and now control vast fortunes and the political systems of many countries. Purebloods seem like a backwater remnant of a bygone era.
History For the last decade the fortunes of Muggleborn witches and wizards have been on the rise, as Muggleborns have largely shunned the isolation of careers in the wizarding world to integrate among—and sometimes control—Muggles.
Many trace the phenomenon back to what was originally a small secret society at Hogwarts. First active in the '40s and '50s, the Mudblood Society was a fringe group of Muggleborn students who felt marginalized in the wizarding world and plotted their take-over of the Muggle world. The society was regarded as something of a joke by most of those who knew of it until the first head of the Mudblood Society, Nicholas Abney, was sent to Azkaban in the mid-60s for using the Imperius Curse to control much of the Muggle banking establishment in Britain. The resulting scandal cast the rest of the Society in a negative light, and Muggleborns quickly hushed up their connections to the group.
While the Mudblood Society continued to meet, the ensuing years saw an increasingly less serious contingent take over and the Mudblood Society focused more on hazing rituals and late-night pranks than world domination. It wasn’t until Harriet Burns took over the Society in 1976 that the tone changed. Harriet believed that Muggleborns were wasting their talents in the wizarding world when they could be ruling the Muggle world. All it took was Harriet’s charisma and vision for the Society to flourish, and most of the Muggleborns (and many halfbloods) from her class at Hogwarts pursued—and became highly successful in—Muggle careers. Harriet herself went on to a vibrant political career in London. To the vast surprise of the wizarding world, she married an American Muggle and stepped out of the public eye in 1988 in order to “raise a family in peace.”
In 1990, William Simmons, Harriet’s Muggle husband, was elected President of the United States.
The wizarding world was stunned—it seemed clear to everyone that Harriet Simmons alone was behind her husband’s meteoric rise from obscure House member to President. Purebloods complained vociferously that Harriet’s actions were a threat to the International Statute of Secrecy, and behind closed doors people whispered that surely it was a love potion, if not the Imperius Curse, that allowed Harriet to control William Simmons. Outspokenly triumphant, Harriet urged fellow Muggleborns to follow her example. One by one, former members of the Society rose to positions of wealth and prominence all over Great Britain.
Meanwhile purebloods grew increasingly marginalized, and the Ministry of Magic became a quaint relic of an earlier era. Confused and a bit unbalanced, most purebloods retreated to all-wizarding villages where they lived in relative obscurity. Over time the wealthy, powerful Muggleborns began to look down on the backwater purebloods, and by the mid-90s intermarriage between the two groups was increasingly rare.
At Hogwarts By the late '90s the Mudblood Society has stopped meeting, as its ideology is so prevalent among the Muggleborn and halfblood students of Hogwarts. Most Muggleborn and halfblood students aspire to be in Hufflepuff, the former house of Harriet Simmons and the house that has always been the most welcoming of Muggleborns. Gryffindor is also made up primarily of Muggleborns and halfbloods, while Ravenclaw is the most mixed. Slytherin is almost entirely pureblood, and is looked down upon by members of other houses. There is a growing sense of isolation and resentment among pureblooded students, although a fringe group has begun to advocate for purebloods to learn more about Muggles and Muggle society so as not to be left out of the emerging power structure.
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Apr 17, 2016 21:06:51 GMT
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